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US woman arrested after three dead babies found in her home

Screen grab of a CBS Boston news report. US police arrested a woman after three dead infants were found in a Massachusetts home from which state officials previously rescued four children. Photo: CBS Boston

US child welfare officials removed four children from a filthy house in Massachusetts to protect them from suspected abuse or neglect.

But when investigators returned to the house two weeks later, they discovered something worse: Three dead infants lying amid the squalor and vermin.

Police arrested a resident of the house, Erika Murray, on charges that she misled a police investigation into the incident at the house.

Worcester County District Attorney spokesman Tim Connolly would not elaborate on the 31-year-old woman's connection to the crime, but said she would be arraigned on charges including intimidation of a witness on Friday morning.

Flies, bugs, used diapers

The cause of death and the gender of the infants found at the filthy home in Blackstone are still unknown, said Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early.